Non-printing characters in Word 2011 not showing even when enabled

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I have a document I work on often, my resume. I have created a few different styles that I use and for some reason the non-printing characters have stopped showing properly. I have the option enabled (the reversed P) and the proper settings in the preferences checked. Here is a screenshot of the current view:

SS1

basically, only the tab stops and the returns are showing.

Upon doing an experiment by creating a new document, all characters (especially the spaces) show up nicely:

SS2

I can copy this line and paste it into my resume document and it shows up there too. It seems my styles are doing something...

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